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“Gary's vast practical experience and industry knowledge of software development is a real asset to his teaching of Lean Six Sigma process improvement. His adaptation of the six sigma materials to a small companies setting, allowed us to economically bring six sigma to our company and we are starting to see the results.” April 2, 2008 Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Good Value hired Gary as a Business Consultant in 2007
-- Chad Haggerty
“Since we hired Gary as our turnaround expert we have made huge strides in bringing our project back from the brink of collapse! His guidance, experience and honesty set the stage for a successful project re-launch. He has taught the project team so much, was able to get the right people in the right roles and remove layers that were over-complicating the project. He's been easy to work with and extremely supportive. It's not an easy task to get the Business and IT teams to work cohesively, but Gary has done just that! He has become an invaluable resource and I highly recommend him.” March 18, 2008 Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, Creative hired Gary as a IT Consultant in 2007
-- Teddi Schwilling
“Gary Gack has a great knack for making process improvement simpler and more practical after distilling the most important parts of the leading process improvement frameworks. This knack helps his clients gain better business results without getting lost in the jungle of competing and overlapping standards like PMBOK, ISO 9000, CMMI, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma and others. Gary has the cutting edge skills and experience to pragmatically apply process improvement methods in a well tailored manner to Information Technology. I believe any of his client will benefit greatly by engaging with Gary.” March 14, 2008 Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, Creative hired Gary as a Business Consultant in 2007, and hired Gary more than once
-- Alan Mcleod
“Gary is the most knowledgeable and skilled professional I ever met or worked with in the SDLC space. His expertise, methods and personal style helped move our team from merely hard workers to productive professionals. The results speak for themselves. In less than two years production defects were cut in half, rework was reduced by 60% and schedule and effort productivity improved by almost 15%.” June 10, 2008Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Experthired Gary as a IT Consultant in 1994, and hired Gary more than once
-- John Davis
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Software Development for Business Executives
What You Need to Know to Guarantee Project Success
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Presented by Gary Gack
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“Why do our IT projects keep running over budget?” With your bottom-line being squeezed by the economy, you can’t afford to have your software development projects run over budget, miss delivery dates, or fail altogether. The good news is that you can avoid these deadly pitfalls – if you know what questions to ask … and when.
Gary Gack, 40-year software development executive and Wharton MBA, bridges the gap between IT departments and business leaders. He teaches you what to ask your team so you can make informed, educated decisions on software development projects. He shows you how to effectively work with the IT team to ensure the project is completed accurately, on-time, and within specifications.
In this webinar, you will learn to:
- Ask the critical questions to ensure the project is scoped correctly
- Develop a “cost of quality” model so you can measure the return on your software investments
- Analyze the status of the project
- Avoid the most common-failure points in software development projects
- Apply the two key steps every leader can take to improve project performance
As an added bonus, you’ll receive Gary’s white paper “What Every CEO and General Manager Needs to Know About Software Project Risk” to help you implement the teachings from this eLearning event. This white paper expands on the topics covered in the webinar and provides additional details useful to you software and IT team.
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Suggested Attendees: Business Leaders/Executives and Small Business Owners
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Gary Gack is the founder and President of Process-Fusion.net, a provider of project management training, coaching, and facilitation services. With more than 25years of diverse experience in project and process management consulting he has led and facilitate dozens of large scale projects for large multi-national companies including VF Corporation, Bell Canada, Gap, National City Bank, and many others. Mr. Gack holds an MBA from the Wharton School, is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer. He is the author of Managing the Black Hole: The Executive’s Guide to Software Project Risk. ... read more |
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